1) I vote for the taking of the 6th cavalry division from Budennyy for the Wrangel front;

2) for the reinforcement of Budennyy's Red Army cavalry with those 3-4 thousand sabres which the Commander-in-Chief promises to the South (urgently);

+ 4) intensified requisitioning of horses from Belorussian peasants to replenish Budennyy's cavalry;

5) for the replacement of Gittis by comrade Frunze immediately (see the opinion of the Commander-in-Chief and Tukachevsky).

Lenin

1920

* This phrase, signature and the words "for the Politburo Krestinsky" were written by V. I. Lenin after receiving the consent of members of the Politburo of the CC RCP(b). Ed.

Written in August, no earlier than the 20th,

First published in 1959

in the Lenin Collection XXXVI

Printed from the manuscript